Even by my standards the place was a dump, and my standards are low. Late autumn light filtered through my dusty window and made the interior, already only a few small steps from squalor, look still less prepossessing. Rare is the situation that requires the full range of one's perceptions, and in general the world is improved by being only dimly visible.Ĭase in point-my room was the sort of place best viewed half asleep or in a drunken stupor. It's a vestige of my past I'd rather lose, all things considered. It was a necessary adaptation, as heavy sleepers were likely to come to greeted by the sight of a Dren commando with a trench blade. In the opening days of the Great War, on the battlefields of Apres and Ives, I acquired the ability to abandon slumber with the flutter of an eyelid. Low Town is an attention-grabbing debut that will leave readers riveted. In Low Town, no one can be trusted.ĭaniel Polansky has crafted a thrilling novel steeped in noir sensibilities and relentless action, and set in an original world of stunning imagination, leading to a gut-wrenching, unforeseeable conclusion. To protect his home, he will take part in a dangerous game of deception between underworld bosses and the psychotic head of Black House, but the truth is far darker than he imagines. As a former agent with Black House–the secret police–he knows better than anyone that murder in Low Town is an everyday thing, the kind of crime that doesn’t get investigated. setting him on a collision course with the life he left behind. The Warden’s life of drugged iniquity is shaken by his discovery of a murdered child down a dead-end street. Every day is a constant hustle to find new customers and protect his turf from low-life competition like Tancred the Harelip and Ling Chi, the enigmatic crime lord of the heathens. After a fall from grace five years ago, a man known as the Warden leads a life of crime, addicted to cheap violence and expensive drugs. It is an ugly place, and its champion is an ugly man. In the forgotten back alleys and flophouses that lie in the shadows of Rigus, the finest city of the Thirteen Lands, you will find Low Town.

Drug dealers, hustlers, brothels, dirty politics, corrupt cops.

Low town a novel daniel polansky